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In addition to lemmy.world, the #2 real lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, seems to be growing as well.

Our neighbor, kbin.social, has also reached the 40k milestone today.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
these bots are gonna be a problem
And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they're not here by accident

[–] MicroWave 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's ridiculously blatant that instance is full of fake users.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it's from a week ago

its the default setting of every new instance to require approval, on my instance i dont require email verification so i thought i could at least have people write something to let me know they’re human. in the end no one uses my instance so I just opened it up, maybe after some registrations ill make it an application again.

Boy oh boy, @gaylord you're in for a fun time there, bud
48k users right now btw, he's getting a lot of bots

[–] MicroWave 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he hasn’t posted anything for nearly a week.

[–] Master 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've already replaced him.

[–] MicroWave 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still see him as the only admin of that k6qw instance.

[–] Master 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was trying to be subtle... but what I meant was that the bots have found him IRL and replaced him... Invasion of the Botty Snatchers...

[–] MicroWave 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] DAC_Protogen 22 points 1 year ago

I'm new here, too! Just made the account. <3 Never liked Reddit, but open source stuff is always nice, plus, Lemmy looks way cleaner. So uhm... henlo!

[–] KazuyaDarklight 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Non-bot Lemmy instance" Go talk to the beehaw'ers about that, they're convinced we're the bottiest of instances. =P

[–] Master 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not bottiest. They specifically said it was the trolliest.

[–] KazuyaDarklight 1 points 1 year ago

Anecdotally, I disagree with that characterization. Though, when you have the most people period, you do, somewhat intrinsically, tend to have the most of all "types" of people.

That said, I need convincing that lemmy.ml, who they are still federated to, has a meaningfully "nicer" community.

[–] MicroWave 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, what did they say in particular?

[–] KazuyaDarklight 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More accurately they defederated from lemmy.world due to "concerns" about it's open sign-ups policy and the potential for "abuse".

[–] neurodancer 20 points 1 year ago

It was less about intangible "concerns" and more that most of their time spent moderating was from users of this instance and since they're strained on time, it made sense to simply defederate until the necessary mod tools exist to make things easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s four volunteers dude, they’re allowed to do what they think is best for their instance. This is not their full time job

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing of value was lost

[–] notsorryforpartying 19 points 1 year ago

Gotta love that uptime too!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here representing kbin! I honestly keep trying to go back to a lemmy.world from time to time but I prefer kbin's experience overall. Fantastic news for all involved!

[–] MicroWave 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that you're seamlessly commenting in a lemmy.world post from kbin.social is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's such an amazing system! Really impressing me and I plan to stay regardless of what Reddit does!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same! Still trying to find the right platform to use the fediverse from. I'm hoping that once transferring accounts or linking accounts is easier it won't matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be curious to see how they would implement something like this. I've come to accept the together but separate concept but it would be cool to have a consolidation of sorts!

[–] MyOpinion 11 points 1 year ago

The next 40K will be even quicker.

[–] ulu_mulu 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is country shown as Finland? The server is host in Germany AFAIK.

[–] MicroWave 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the website, it's based on the server's IP location.

[–] dot20 5 points 1 year ago

IIRC it's hosted at Hetzner, and they have datacenters in Germany, Finland and the US. That could be the reason that the wrong flag is showing up.

[–] scrof 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey that sweet Finnish flag was the reason I chose it! I feel cheated now :(

[–] dot20 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Finnish-run instance at https://sopuli.xyz/

(no affiliation, I just heard about it somewhere else)

[–] scrof 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@MicroWave I don't know about bots but I think Kbin has a little over 41K users right now: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

[–] MicroWave 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the update. So cool to see a kbin.social user commenting in a lemmy.world post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin user here. I didn't put much thought into which server I joined. Kbin sign-up was easy so here I am. It's cool that it doesn't really matter which server you're from!

[–] MicroWave 2 points 1 year ago

Right, it's beautiful to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Congratulations 🍾🎉🎊 lemmy.world

[–] gyro 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate "bots" from "non-bots"? It feels like "we don't have any bots" is a pretty laughable thing to say.

[–] MicroWave 4 points 1 year ago

They currently do not separate, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't understand. You say 40k but on the statistics page of kbin https://kbin.social/stats it says 200k users (?)

[–] MicroWave 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure what that 200k users number really means (a glitch perhaps?), but the raw live data directly from kbin.social node info currently shows it's grown to 41k users: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

kbin.social is a Kbin instance, not a Lemmy instance, so it's not stopping lemmy.world from being the biggest Lemmy instance.

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